The Variety of the Polish Catholic Modernism: An Overview of the Reception Process

This paper describes the process of reception of Catholic Modernism in Poland as well as the Polish contribution to this movement. It shows the Polish antimodernist perspective on modernistic thought. The neglect of Polish modernism was caused by the nationalistic character of the Polish theology an...

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Published in:Zeitschrift für neuere Theologiegeschichte
Main Author: Rogalski, Michał 1988- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter [2020]
In: Zeitschrift für neuere Theologiegeschichte
Further subjects:B Antimodernism
B Polish Theology
B Catholic Modernism
B Marian Zdziechowski
B Roman Catholicism
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Summary:This paper describes the process of reception of Catholic Modernism in Poland as well as the Polish contribution to this movement. It shows the Polish antimodernist perspective on modernistic thought. The neglect of Polish modernism was caused by the nationalistic character of the Polish theology and has resulted in absence of historical studies of Polish Catholic Modernism. Based on the results of archival and literature research the paper presents a variety of Polish Catholic Modernists and non-Catholic supporters of the modernist thought. A unique place among Polish modernists belongs to Marian Zdziechowski (1861-1938) who was the only Polish participant of the international intellectual debate on the "modernisation" of Roman Catholicism. The paper analyses the development of Zdziechowski’s thought and shows that his main demand throughout the modernist debates was to create a new, more efficient apologetics, which would be grounded in the religious experience of the individual.
ISSN:1612-9776
Contains:Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für neuere Theologiegeschichte
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/znth-2020-0013